Trial over the book which tells people the truth on April 24th

People are watching the trial of the book, "Is all power to the people?"
On Tuesday, April 24, at the Vladimir Regional Court there will be a session held where representatives of the Svetlana Peunova will challenge re-examination of the Svetlana Peunova’s book "Is all power to the people?"

The day before, an appeal of Svetlana Peunova was handed to Chairman of the Regional Court A. Malyshkin, which states:
The reason for the appeal to the regional court is the fact that the trial over my book in the district court is being unreasonably delayed for over a year. In judicial practice, it is called "abuse of procedural law", and in arbitration practice parties are even being fined for that. But the most alerting thing is that the case of recognizing my book “Is all power to the people? Confessions of a contemporary” an extremist material is being delayed by the judge, showing a clear loyalty to the prosecution side.

The judge, M. Sysoeva has every reason for the delivery of a judgment, already for a long time, but she does not do it.

There are four examinations enclosed in the case, three of which, including court expertise, unequivocally state that there are no calls for extremist activities in the book.
These three examinations were conducted by professionals with high qualifications and academic degrees in linguistics, psychology, law and sociology, and only one examination was made by Nabukina, an ordinary school teacher in the Vladimir city gymnasium # 23M.

Conclusions of school teacher came into conflict with the findings of several candidates and doctors of science, but for some reason, the judge favored her arguments, suspended the proceedings and appointed an absolutely unnecessary re-examination.

The party, that the judge favors, is unfamiliar with the subject of court proceedings, and did not even read the book, that she tries to recognize an extremist. The representative of the prosecutor's office S. Babukina does not prepare for litigation, cannot answer any questions, concerning her own claims.

All this is confirmed by the video and audio recordings of past trials.

I am as the leader of the opposition party and a public figure well aware of the political character of this case, and that is why I am even surer that it must be solved in full accordance with international law and the Russian Constitution.

The relationship of the Russian and international public, that watches the proceedings, toward the judicial system, justice in general and toward how it ensures the protection of the rights of citizens against unfounded accusations, depends on the decision on this case.
I really hope for an objective decision of the regional court concerning my submitted complaint of unjustified appointment of another expertise, delaying the trial, prepossession of the judge Sisoeva to this case, the one- sided assessment of the available evidences in the case.

With respect and hope for your objectivity, the leader of the “VOLYA” (WILL) party, Svetlana Peunova.

221 signatures in support of the complaint, collected on the pickets in the Vladimir city are enclosed. In addition, several hundred signatures in support of the appeal are sent to the chairman of the Vladimir city Regional Court from 45 Russian cities.

We invite members of the media, human rights organizations and all concerned citizens to come to the Vladimir Regional Court for a hearing on the complaint of Svetlana Peunova. The meeting is scheduled for April 24, at 11.10 at the address: 55 Streletskaya Str.

We urge representatives from media, human rights organizations and all citizens to participate in the distribution of information about this process and not to allow the power to convict people's opposition secretly from public, to stand up in defense of freedom of speech and constitutional rights of citizens in Russia.
Detailed information is on the volya-naroda.com and on the hotline 8-800-200-15-20, telephone number in the Vladimir city: 8-961-252-10-81

http://volya-naroda.ru/news/read/?…

A BIG RALLY AGAINST NATO TOOK PLACE IN RUSSIA!


RUSSIANS DON'T WANT  NATO IN THEIR COUNTRY AT ALL

Оn the 7th of april, a rally “Say “No” to NATO!” took place in Ulyanovsk. Besides the Volya party, initiator of the rally, movements “For Justice” and “Druzhina”, and over 1500 of Ulyanovsk people taking place in it representatives of other movements were enthusiastic about participating in such a big action of Ulyanovsk! The final count of the column moving along Ulyanovsk streets starting at the 30- letie Pobedy Square to the 100-letie Lenina Square is 1200 people. This is the largest event of the city for the last years.

The Rally took place at the final point of demonstration and took about 1,5 hour.
People came up with distrust to the governer of Ulyanovsk region Sergey Morozov and the head of Ministry of foreign affairs Sergey Lavrov speaking of they allowing transport of cargo and they assured of the NATO not appearing in the city. The dwellers also think that NATO is going to take drugs and prostitution with them. They are absolutely against NATO in Russia and demand annulling all the previous agreements, particularly Transit of cargo through air.

The rally ended up with Svetlana Peunova, the leader of the party, singing a song . Participants of the rally put their names down for the letter to the government where they demand to stop negotiating about NATO transportation gateway in Ulyanovsk. Svetlana Peunova made a call for demanding annulling of the Presidential election and in sign of it she suggested that they should have let blue balloons with “Say No to NATO !” on them go.

http://volya-naroda.ru/news/read/?…

1984

The Onion can't parody this.

Via Daily Kos TV:

Michael Scheuer, on Glenn Beck's show on Fox News: The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama Bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States. [...] ...only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them...

Jon Stewart, on the Daily Show on Comedy Central, responding: What the f[beep] is that? And by the way, here's the fascinating thing about our culture: my guess is, you didn't hear me say f[beep], because the federal government is protecting you and your children's ears from that type of profanity, while Santa's evil twin gets to nonchalantly propose needless slaughter of Americans for the purposes of furthering his national security plan. But obviously, in this country, everyone's entitled to their dope-pinion....

...hey, is there any way to yell loud enough into your TV at home for the people inside it to hear you? 'Cause I tried real hard last night.


Today's edition of What Jon Stewart Said is brought to you by the letters W, T, and F.
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Wonder why we're Godless? Here's a hint...


 
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/amer…3/11/brazil.rape.abortion/index.ht…f=mpstoryview

So yesterday I wrote about the survey that indicated that Americans are going away from religion, especially Christianity.  And more specifically: Catholicism.  Why is this happening?  The above article may be a huge hint.

Imagine you have a daughter and she is nine years old.  God forbid, the unthinkable happens.  She gets raped.  To add insult to an already grave injury, the worst case scenario happens.  She gets pregnant.  With twins.  Besides wanting to tear the rapist limb from limb and jam those limbs down his throat, what do you do now? 

I would imagine the last thing you would want to do is let the pregnancy go on.  Not just because it was caused by rape (because many good people have chosen to keep and love their babies caused by this heinous act), but because your daughter is nine years old.  There is no way the pregnancy would be without significant risks.  Now I'm no doctor, but I would venture to say that the probability of the babies surviving would be relatively low, and if they did they would undoubtedly face countless health issues throughout their lives.  And even more importantly, what about your daughter?  A nine year old is not designed to carry a baby, much less twins.

A group of doctors in Brazil realized this, so they performed an abortion for the little girl, which I would say probably saved her life.  What thanks did they get?  They got excommunicated from the Catholic Church because of what they did.

So you would at least think the rapist would have gotten excommunicated as well, right?  Absolutely not.  Why?  Because "A graver act than (rape) is abortion, to eliminate an innocent life."  I'm not usually at a loss for words, but...wow.  I always believe abortion should be the last option, but in this case, undoubtedly necessary.

Why are people moving away from religion?  You decide.

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Godless America? I don't think so.

Last night Bill O'Reilly reported on a recent survey conducted by ARIS (American Religious Self-Indentification Survey) which showed that between 1990 and today, the percentage of Americans that called themselves Christian dropped from 86 to 76. Additionally, 20% of Americans now choose to associate themselves with no defined religion, with Catholicism taking the biggest hit in numbers. The conclusion, therefore, is that today more and more Americans are becoming "Godless" beings and hold no faith to speak of.

I believe that can't be farther from the truth.

On the contrary, I believe we are simply in the midst of a massive redefining of how we view religion in America and around the world. Perhaps a second Reformation, if you will. Much like the Reformation of the 16th century, Americans are seeing the obvious flaws with organized religion, including the omnipresent "do as I say, not as I do" mentality of many preachers and churchgoers alike. So, they choose to not be a part of the hypocrisy and opt to not associate themselves with a certain church.

Does that then mean they have no faith? That they are Godless heathens? Absolutely not. Just because a person chooses not to go to church every Sunday does not mean they don't share many of the same thoughts, feelings, and faith in God. They just choose to exercise their religious beliefs in a more personal way. At home, for example - where God belongs the most. I can honestly say that I do not attend church on a regular basis, but my kids do. Not because they have to, but because they genuinely want to. And that's the way it should be. Religion should not be force fed down a child's throat on a young age. Instead they should be given the option to attend church, and they should decide for themselves if that is something in which they wish to participate. Mandatory church attendance will only go on to cause greater distrust in organized religion later in life. Church should be a place of fun and togetherness, not a place of "fire and brimstone" where you learn about all the things God doesn't like about us meager humans.

And because I don't go to church, does that mean my family has no faith or belief in God? Negative. If anything, I'd say deep down we are much more religious than the individual who goes to church and then leaves the parking lot afterwards and proceeds to lie, cheat, steal, etc etc etc (but it's okay because they went to Church). Just remember: if you do go to church, take what you learned with you when you leave, and make sure you apply it all throughout the week, not just two hours on Sunday morning...and then maybe we'll see the churches start to fill up again.

More on the survey: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310…2-ussc.html
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From http://eurekalert.org:

Public Release: 3-Feb-2009
Geology
February 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights
GEOLOGY includes three papers about Mars: continuation of the "jelly sandwich" versus "crème brûlée" debate; support for the Snowball Earth hypothesis; what nine-million-year-old tooth enamel says about vegetation in an ancient sub-Himalayan ecosystem; anthropogenic lead in the Tyrrhenian Sea; evidence for a prehistoric South Pacific tsunami; a multicentennial megadrought in medieval Europe; and a newly discovered fossil turtle in the Canadian Arctic. GSA Today's science article proposes a new method for classifying Quaternary glacial deposits.
http://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/…

Public Release: 3-Feb-2009
Cancer
One-fifth of women who should receive radiation after a mastectomy are not getting this potentially lifesaving treatment, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
NIH/National Cancer Institute
http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/med…

Public Release: 3-Feb-2009
Cardiff University researchers who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries in physics according to an American physicist. Craig Hogan, a physicist at Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics in Illinois is convinced that he has found proof in the data of the gravitational wave detector GEO600 of a holographic universe.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…

Public Release: 3-Feb-2009
American Naturalist
Why don't more animals change their sex?
Most animals, like humans, have separate sexes -- they are born, live out their lives and reproduce as one sex or the other. However, some animals live as one sex in part of their lifetime and then switch to the other sex, a phenomenon called sequential hermaphroditism. What remains a puzzle, according to Yale scientists, is why the phenomenon is so rare, since their analysis shows the biological "costs" of changing sexes rarely outweigh the advantages.
Yale University, National Science Foundation
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…

Public Release: 3-Feb-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Living longer thanks to the 'longevity gene'
A variation in the gene FOXO3A has a positive effect on the life expectancy of humans, and is found much more often in people living to 100 and beyond -- moreover, this appears to be true worldwide. A research group in the Faculty of Medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel has now confirmed this assumption by comparing DNA samples taken from 388 German centenarians with those from 731 younger people.
National Genome Research Network
http://www.uni-kiel.de/aktuell/pm/…
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From the Physics Arxiv Blog http://arxivblog.org:

How the credit crisis spread
January 14th, 2009 | by KFC

"The graphic may be dramatic but it shows only how the collapse occurred, not why. That’s much more subtle and is related to the far more complex network of links that exist between the companies involved.

"However, the graph does bear a remarkable resemblance to any number of other network-related catastrophies, such as the spread of disease, forest fires and fashion. That’s almost certainly because all these events can be described terms of the physics of self-organised criticality."

http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1392:
The Spread of the Credit Crisis: View from a Stock Correlation Network
Authors: Reginald D. Smith
(Submitted on 10 Jan 2009)

Abstract: The credit crisis roiling the world's financial markets will likely take years and entire careers to fully understand and analyze. A short empirical investigation of the current trends, however, demonstrates that the losses in certain markets, in this case the US equity markets, follow a cascade or epidemic flow like model along the correlations of various stocks. A few images and explanation here will suffice to show the phenomenon. Also, whether the idea of "epidemic" or a "cascade" is a metaphor or model for this crisis will be discussed.

Comments: 3 pages, 6 figures; submitted to the Journal of the Physical Society of Korea; animations of credit crisis spread available at: this http URL
Subjects: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
Cite as: arXiv:0901.1392v1 [q-fin.ST]
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From http://eurekalert.org:

Public Release: 16-Jan-2009
Journal of Neuroscience
Canada-US scientists discover gene responsible for brain's aging
According to a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, a research team from the Universite de Montreal, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has identified a gene that controls the normal and pathological aging of neurons in the central nervous system: Bmi1.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…
"Will scientists one day be able to slow the aging of the brain and prevent diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's? Absolutely – once the genetic coding associated with neuronal degeneration has been unraveled."

Public Release: 16-Jan-2009
Swiss and Dutch health systems provide lessons for US on achieving universal coverage
A new Commonwealth Fund study says that policies in the Switzerland and Netherlands that achieve near-universal coverage and low administrative costs can help inform the US health-care reform debate. Both countries effectively cover all but one percent of their population -- compared with 15 percent uninsured in the US -- due to an individual mandate to purchase health insurance and premium assistance for those with low incomes.
Commonwealth Fund
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…

Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
High-tech solutions ease inaugural challenges
Transportation and security officials on Inauguration Day will have a centralized, consolidated stream of traffic information and other data displayed on a single screen using software developed by the University of Maryland. The Regional Integrated Transportation Information System gives officials a single real-time view far more comprehensive than previously available. The idea is to enhance officials' ability to monitor vehicular traffic, accidents, incidents, response plans, air space, weather conditions and more.
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitec…
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From http://eurekalert.org:

Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Addiction
Alcohol taxes have clear effect on drinking
A new study published online today finds that the more alcoholic beverages cost, the less likely people are to drink.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…

Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Lancet
Countries undergoing economic change urged to limit social and health costs for populations
Countries seeking to make massive changes in the way their economies are run, for example by privatizing formerly state-run sectors, must take into account the potential impact of such changes on people's health, experts warn today.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…
"Huge rise in male mortality coincided with move from communism to capitalism"

Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Science
Next generation cloaking device demonstrated
A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality.
US Air Force
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…

Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
Current Biology
Cooling the planet with crops
By carefully selecting which varieties of food crops to cultivate, much of Europe and North America could be cooled by up to 1 degree Celsius during the summer growing season, say researchers from the University of Bristol, UK. This is equivalent to an annual global cooling of over 0.1 degrees Celsius, almost 20 percent of the total global temperature increase since the Industrial Revolution. Unlike growing biofuels, such a plan could be achieved without disrupting food production.
The Royal Society
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…

Public Release: 14-Jan-2009
USDA Small Changes Summit
Calories from home-cooked recipes grow over time
Research shows that calories in recipes have increased over time. Dr. Brian Wansink, of the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion said, "The calories in recipes in the cookbook, 'The Joy of Cooking,' have increased 63 percent from its publication, 1937, to its latest edition, 2006. Overweight and obesity have resulted in small steps going the wrong direction. The solution is to bring government, industry and academia together to promote small changes in the right direction."
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…

Public Release: 14-Jan-2009
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
Free-range chickens are more prone to disease
Chickens kept in litter-based housing systems, including free-range chickens, are more prone to disease than chickens kept in cages, according to a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…
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From http://eurekalert.org:

Public Release: 17-Dec-2008
'Smart' surveillance system may tag suspicious or lost people
Engineers here are developing a computerized surveillance system that, when completed, will attempt to recognize whether a person on the street is acting suspiciously or appears to be lost. Intelligent video cameras, large video screens and geo-referencing software are among the technologies that will soon be available to law enforcement and security agencies.
National Science Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratory
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archiv…

Public Release: 17-Dec-2008
American Geophysical Union
Study: Did early climate impact divert a new glacial age?
The common wisdom is that the invention of the steam engine and the advent of the coal-fueled industrial age marked the beginning of human influence on global climate.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…

Public Release: 17-Dec-2008
Nature
Earth's original ancestor was LUCA, not Adam nor Eve
An evolutionary geneticist from the University of Montreal, together with researchers from the French cities of Lyon and Montpellier, have published a ground-breaking study that characterizes the common ancestor of all life on earth, LUCA (last universal common ancestor). Their findings, presented in a recent issue of Nature, show that the 3.8-billion-year-old organism was not the creature usually imagined.
Action Concertee Incitative IMPBIO-MODELPHYLO, ANR PlasmoExplore
http://www.eurekalert.org/pubnews.…

Public Release: 17-Dec-2008
American Sociological Review
Growing income gap among US families suggests increasing economic insecurity
The incomes of American families with children have become increasingly stratified since 1975, with income inequality increasing two-thirds during a 30-year period, according to findings published in the December issue of the peer-reviewed science journal American Sociological Review.
Russell Sage Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York University
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…

Public Release: 17-Dec-2008
Autism and schizophrenia share common origin
Schizophrenia and autism probably share a common origin, hypothesizes Dutch researcher Annemie Ploeger following an extensive literature study. The developmental psychologist demonstrated that both mental diseases have similar physical abnormalities which are formed during the first month of pregnancy.
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/page…

Public Release: 16-Dec-2008
Physical Review D
Caltech researchers interpret asymmetry in early universe
The Big Bang is widely considered to have obliterated any trace of what came before. Now, astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology think that their new theoretical interpretation of an imprint from the earliest stages of the universe may also shed light on what came before.
US Department of Energy, California Institute of Technology
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele…